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Name of book: Twilight:Director's Notebook-The Story Of How We Made The Movie

Author: Catherine Hardwicke

No. of pages: 176 (hardback)

Ratings out of ten? 10!

Summary: Well the title says it all basically. This book is literally a little notebook belonged to the director with all her personal notes and illustrations. This book contains EVERYTHING about the movie and a little 'behind the scenes' access! From the way Edward's hair was originally to be to the stunts they had to pull off to the visual effects... It has everything:)... The book contains tons of pictures and amazing sketches of how they eventually made the movie. It basically gives a desciption of all the characters,the scenes,the locations where they shot scenes in and lots more. It's based on the novel 'Twilight' by Stephenie Meyer but this book would suit best to those who saw the movie. The book tells it exactly how it is from mostly everyone's piont of view and the author gives an excellent intoduction to it by explaining how she got into directing Twilight.

Front cover: see picture.

My thoughts: I adored this book and couldn't put it down for five minutes! In my opinion, the best feature of the book are the sketches and pictures which gradually became the movie. I would also recommend this book for anyone who hopes to be involved in film making when they're older! You might find that the book is a bit sloppy and everything's just ploncked on the page at first but that's what a notebook really is.. So don't mind the arrows pointing to different pictures or a random coffee shop menu in the middle of the page-read it! There is no bad points really!

While I was reading this book I felt blown away by the sketches and just amazed by the enormous amount of effort,time and money (actually they were on a tight budget while filming this movie) that had to be put in to the movie. I wanted to read on and on and on........

Would you recommend this book to others and why? Yes, I definately would. Refer to text above for convincing! I enjoyed this book so much because it was first-hand information (not like the rumours you eould see in magazines) and because it was a change from a normal book as it was a notebook! I thouroughly enjoyed it and would hugely recommend it!

Some of the qoutes in the book were good and I just need to share them to those who never read it before....!

''All of Cat's pens are chewed up!'' - This was written by the director's assistant,Patrick Smith,and he was explaining to us what was in Catherine's bag..one thing included her chewed pens. Even though that's kind of gross I thought it was quite humerous and that a lot of nerves and anxiety must've been in the atmosphere when working on the movie.

''When I mentioned that I was working on a litle movie called Twilight-all the hi-skoolers SCREAMED!'' - This was written by Catherine and I found this extremely funny and to add to the humour Catherine put a picture beside it of the 'hi-skoolers' (who were all girls) who screamed :)

     ''Andy supervised this final shot in the sequence from the helicopter using a spacecam. In the big sphere is a gyro-stabilized remotely controlled camera capable of shooting at virtually any angle. If you don't believe me, you can GOOGLE it. (I did.)'' - This tells it of exactly how it's done (and that Catherine googled it too!)